Stossel, Sick in America, Part 4

Friday, August 22nd, 2008

Continued from Part 3. [youtube YGj4Ei9l0iI] Topics: Is "greed" the problem?  Should medicine be about profit?  Michael Moore: "Get the profit out.  Get the private health insurance company out of there." Regina Herzlinger: Henry Ford cut the price of cars by half.  There are Henry Fords of health care.  Less incentive to innovate without ...

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Stossel, Sick in America, Part 2

Friday, July 25th, 2008

Continued from Part 1. [youtube BpsEAVbCkMM] Topics: pre-existing conditions Michael Moore on why insurers deny care (Moore did not confront insurance executives about this.) Stossel's interview with an executive (Karen Ignagni, America's Health Insurance Plans) claims denial rate, consumer satisfaction with coverage (sites a NY Times/CBS Poll, 87%), prevalence of insurance fraud, bad incentives of insurance What if car insurance covered ...

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Is health care like the fire department?

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

Last week I challenged the view that health care should be a government service because it is allegedly like police protection.  A similar analogy is to the fire department.  Advocating single-payer health care, Michael Moore tells NPR: That you should not have a private, profit-making insurance company in the middle between ...

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